Majorana 实验：寻找无中微子双贝塔衰变的超低本底搜索
核实验
2012-11-13 v1 仪器与探测器
摘要
观测到无中微子双贝塔衰变将解决中微子的 Majorana 属性问题，并可提供关于中微子质量绝对标度的信息。Majorana 实验的初始阶段被称为 Demonstrator，将在南达科他州 Lead 市的 Sanford 地下实验室 4850' 水平处的超低本底屏蔽环境中容纳 40 kg 的 Ge。Demonstrator 的目标是确定未来的 1 吨级实验是否能在围绕 76Ge 无中微子双贝塔衰变峰的一个狭窄感兴趣区域内，实现每吨 - 年一次计数的本底目标。
引用
@article{arxiv.1111.5578,
title = {The Majorana experiment: an ultra-low background search for neutrinoless double-beta decay},
author = {D. G. Phillips and E. Aguayo and F. T. Avignone and H. O. Back and A. S. Barabash and M. Bergevin and F. E. Bertrand and M. Boswell and V. Brudanin and M. Busch and Y. -D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and J. I. Collar and D. C. Combs and R. J. Cooper and J. A. Detwiler and P. J. Doe and Y. Efremenko and V. Egorov and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and J. Esterline and J. E. Fast and N. Fields and P. Finnerty and F. M. Fraenkle and V. M. Gehman and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and V. E. Guiseppe and K. Gusey and A. L. Hallin and R. Hazama and R. Henning and A. Hime and E. W. Hoppe and M. Horton and S. Howard and M. A. Howe and R. A. Johnson and K. J. Keeter and C. Keller and M. F. Kidd and A. Knecht and O. Kochetov and S. I. Konovalov and R. T. Kouzes and B. LaFerriere and B. H. LaRoque and J. Leon and L. E. Leviner and J. C. Loach and S. MacMullin and M. G. Marino and R. D. Martin and D. -M. Mei and J. Merriman and M. L. Miller and L. Mizouni and M. Nomachi and J. L. Orrell and N. R. Overman and A. W. P. Poon and G. Perumpilly and G. Prior and D. C. Radford and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and M. C. Ronquest and A. G. Schubert and T. Shima and M. Shirchenko and K. J. Snavely and D. Steele and J. Strain and K. Thomas and V. Timkin and W. Tornow and I. Vanyushin and R. L. Varner and K. Vetter and K. Vorren and J. F. Wilkerson and B. A. Wolfe and E. Yakushev and A. R. Young and C. -H. Yu and V. Yumatov and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5578},
year = {2012}
}
备注
Presentation for the Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear Physics